Our Town Thornton Wilder - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Our Town Thornton Wilder. Town. Definition: “The inhabitants of a city or town.” OR “ A people with common interests living in a certain area.”. Think about it. Who is in your town? Who are the people you interact with every day?. My town is…. DIRECTIONS:

Copyright Complaint Adult Content Flag as Inappropriate

I am the owner, or an agent authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyrighted work described.

Download Presentation

PowerPoint Slideshow about 'Our Town Thornton Wilder' - yair

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation

Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author.While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server.

This technique is designed to distance the audience from emotional involvement in the play through jolting reminders of the artificiality of the theatrical performance.

Technique Examples include explanatory captions or illustrations projected on a screen; actors stepping out of character to lecture, summarize, or sing songs; and stage designs that do not represent any locality but that, by exposing the lights and ropes.

The stage manager encourages the audience to reflect on what they are seeing by interrupting the plot to comment on the action.

Based on the three motifs Wilder chose [daily life, love, and death], infer why he would use the Alienation Effect to keep us from becoming “lost” in the play. What is his hope for his thinking audience?Write your answer in your notebook. This should be a well-developed one paragraph response.